Border and Padding different in IE and Firefox

Question

The 2 vertical lines should be aligned with the edges of the
photos above, but are showing up differently in IE and Firefox.
http://zooop.net/birch_center/
CSS:
td#maintext {
padding-top:5px;
padding-bottom:0px;
padding-left:8px;
padding-right:30px;
line-height: 2.1;
#main_text_copy {
padding-top:30px;
padding-bottom:0px;
padding-left:25px;
padding-right:25px;
line-height: 2.1;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-left-style: solid;
border-left-color: #999999;
border-right-width: 1px;
border-right-style: solid;
border-right-color: #999999;
Emilie

Answer 1

> Is there a functional difference between specifying td
widths inside the
> td
> tag, vs the css file? Or do you just think it's easier
to manage?
My inclination is to always use CSS if I need to specify such
things. They
function the same.
> would the css be something like this:
>
> td#maintext {
> width: 400px;
> padding-left:8px;
> padding-right:30px;
> }
>
> or is it column-width: 400px;
The former.
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> Thank you, I'll try that.
>
> Is there a functional difference between specifying td
widths inside the
> td
> tag, vs the css file? Or do you just think it's easier
to manage?
>
> would the css be something like this:
>
> td#maintext {
> width: 400px;
> padding-left:8px;
> padding-right:30px;
> }
>
> or is it column-width: 400px;
>